Google “writing prompts”.
If you know another language, translate obscure public domain material from that language.
Re-make something in a different style: take a sci-fi novel and make it into a pirates short story, for example.
And when your actual idea hits you, drop all of that other stuff and focus.
Google “writing prompts”.
If you know another language, translate obscure public domain material from that language.
Re-make something in a different style: take a sci-fi novel and make it into a pirates short story, for example.
And when your actual idea hits you, drop all of that other stuff and focus.